HISTORICKÝ FAKT, REALIZMUS A KONŠTRUKTIVIZMUS

• Authors: Zeleňák Eugen

Title variants

EN

Historical fact, realism and constructivism

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to discuss the definition of the fact presented by Vaclav Cernik. At first, the author outlines the views of the defenders of the naive realism, constructivism (or narrativism), and critical realism in historiography. The leading proponents of narrativism hold that what the historians construe are not single facts, but general narrative interpretations. The second part offers a critical analysis of some notions and distinctions introduced by Cernik in his theory of the social fact. The most questionable is his concept of observation statements and his way of differentiation between observational and theoretical statements. The author's conclusion is that the most reliable is the middle ground between naive realism and constructivism in their radical forms.

Keywords

EN

CERNIK VACLAV; CONSTRUCTIVISM; CRITICAL REALISM; NAIVE REALISM; NARRATIVISM

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 625-633
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zeleňák Eugen

• Eugen Zelenak, Katedra filozofie Filozofickej fakulty Kezmarskej univerzity, Hrabovska cesta l, 034 01 Kezmarok, Slovak Republic; www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/filozofia

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09SKAAAA06817